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plesiosaur

Prehistoric carnivorous marine reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, which reached a length of 12 m/36 ft, and had a long neck and paddlelike limbs. The pliosaurs evolved from the plesiosaurs.



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There were huge tortoises too, paddling about among these other reptiles, which Perry said were Plesiosaurs of the Lias.
At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
The thing must have been sixteen or eighteen feet in length and closely resembled pictures I had seen of restored plesiosaurs of the lower Jurassic.
The Land That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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